The outrageous character who undermines all of a SitCom's attempts at verisimilitude (such as they are).

Often, the outrageous character(s) clearly has a key to the residence of the more central characters of the show, since they nearly always show up unannounced and never knock or ring the door bell (see DropInCharacter, YourDoorWasOpen and InadvertentEntranceCue).

The WackyGuy may also be a WeirdnessMagnet, his own strangeness an attractor for other weirdness without being directly responsible for it.

Contrast DeadpanSnarker, although they can be combined. Compare FunPersonified, {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, TheDitz. May be behind the ZanyScheme.----!!Examples:

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[[folder:Fanfiction]]* In LighterAndSofter ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fanfics, [[MagnificentBastard Gendo Ikari]] is frequently a combination of this and BunnyEarsLawyer.* [[ThePrankster Socrates]] of ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' is this.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Film]]* Batty Koda from ''WesternAnimation/FernGully''.* Mack in ''Film/SuperTroopers'', who pulls off the more outlandish shenanigans (impersonating a carjacker just to freak out some stoned teenagers, and volunteering to be the test subject for a bullet-proof jockstrap).[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live Action TV]]* Lenny and Squiggy, ''Series/LaverneAndShirley''.* Skippy or Nick, ''Series/FamilyTies''.* Reverend Jim, ''Series/{{Taxi}}''.** Also FunnyForeigner Latka.* Spencer Shay, ''Series/ICarly''.* Sinjin van Cleef, ''Series/{{Victorious}}''.* Kramer, ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.* Cody, then [[ReplacementScrappy Jean-Luc]], ''Series/StepByStep''.* Harry, ''ThirdRockFromTheSun''.* Jack, ''WillAndGrace''.* [[ExtravertedNerd Steve Urkel]] and Waldo, ''FamilyMatters''.* [[InsufferableGenius Sheldon]], ''TheBigBangTheory''.* Kimmy Gibbler, ''FullHouse''.* Barney Stinson from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', with a heaping help of {{Jerkass}}, and a handful of DeadpanSnarker.** Note that due to an UnreliableNarrator, what we see might well be an UpToEleven version of the actual person...as for every other character, though this is less blatant.* Beans, ''Series/EvenStevens''.* Alistair from ''AsTimeGoesBy''.* [[HavingAGayOldTime Boner]] from ''GrowingPains''.* Jazz from ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''.* Eric on ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' became this after he TookALevelInDumbass.* On ''Series/SmartGuy'', Moe, Mackie and Yvette's friend Nina have this trope covered between them.* First Amp the nerd and then Rembrandt the surfer on "Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad".* Oddly enough, ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has one: Q.* Maynard G. Krebs (played by Bob Denver) on ''The Dobie Gillis Show''.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]* Master Shake from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' seems to be a combination of this trope and a {{Jerkass}}.** As well as Cartman and Bender from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''.* Wakko from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''* Dale Gribble and Bill Dauterive from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''* Mr. Toad from ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'', especially so in the Creator/CosgroveHall series.* Jay's father Franklin Sherman from ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic''.* Stanley on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan''.[[/folder]]----